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What does tip of the iceberg mean?

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Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Only the beginning; just a small indication of a larger possibility; a problem is much bigger than it seems
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Sensible shoes, diapers and animal crackers are just the tip of the iceberg.
Animal sanctuaries take in about 33,000 rabbits a year, but that number is just the tip of the iceberg, she said.
Worse still, groundwater moves very slowly, which means that the problems so far encountered may be the tip of the iceberg.
The voyeuristic reader only sees the tip of the iceberg, for there is undoubtedly much more of this story to tell.
But PC Lees stressed that the figures were just the tip of the iceberg with many incidents going unreported.
The new movie is just the tip of the iceberg for what is about to become a full-frontal assault of American army flicks.

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